Unit #7 Movie NotesName ______

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Jon Foley: The Other Inconvenient Truth (18min)

  1. What is happening to the rainforest and why?
  2. What continent represents about the amount of land that we are using for grazing.
  3. What continent represents about the amount of land we are using for farming?
  4. Describe what happened to the Aral Sea?
  5. Why is agriculture the biggest greenhouse emitter?
  6. Why is agriculture the biggest single factor of change in this last century?
  7. What trend does Jon think is going to happen to agriculture and why?
  8. What is the problem with expanding farmland?
  9. What is Jon’s balancing act? What needs to be balance?
  10. What is Terraculture?

Ellan Gustafson: Obesity and Hunger = 1 Global Problem (9 min)

  1. What is school feeding and how does it help with poverty and nutrition?
  2. How has the amount of hungry people in America change in the last 30 years?
  3. How many of these hungry people are children?
  4. How many americans are overweight or obese
  5. How has the rate of obesity changed in the last 30 years?
  6. What have been the changes in obesity for adults?
  7. What are the majority of food items today made from?
  8. Who are most of the hungry people in the world?
  9. How has what is farmed led to changes in our food system in this country?
  10. What is Ellans goal for the future? (3 things)

Josette Sheeran: “Ending Hunger Now!” (20 min)

  1. How many people can not fill a cup with food each day?
  2. According to Josette- Why should you care about ending hungar (give at least 3 reasons)
  3. If there is enough food to give everyone there required 2,700 Kcals/day, why are 1 billion people starving?
  4. Why is it important for children to get proper nutrition? (give 3 reasons)
  5. What things can be done to help children get the right nutrition?
  6. What is the best program that works as a food safety net? What is another benefit of this program?
  7. What other simple ideas can help to make people food secure?
  8. What is the cost benefit argument for access to food for all of humanity?

Mark Bittman “What's wrong with what we eat?” (20min)

  1. Why are cows so bad for the environment?
  1. Why is the western diet so bad?
  1. What do animals and junk food have in common?
  1. How does agribusiness get in the way of a more healthy diet?
  1. How many animals are killed for the US each year? ______
  2. What is a Locavore?
  1. Describe the history of food for the last 100 years.

1900’s

1970’s

2000’s

  1. What is the simple formula according to Mark Bittman?

Graham Hill: “Why I'm a weekday vegetarian” (4min)

  1. Why is eating meat bad for you, and the environment, and unethical?
  1. How is being a weakday veg good for you, animals, and the environment?

Ann Cooper “Talks about school lunches” (19min)

  1. Why do we need to teach children about the symbiotic relationship between food, their health, and the health of the planet?
  1. How much of our food does agribusiness control? ______
  2. What is the result of giving animals antibiotics?
  3. What is sustainable food?
  1. How will unhealthy food affect our health system?
  1. How are the governement and an unhealthy food system connected?
  1. How is what we eat affecting our family time?
  1. Why does Ann say this is a social justice issue?

Fed Up - Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives (58min)

  1. What are 5 negative aspects of industrial agriculture?
  2. What were the three parts of the green revolution?
  3. According to Vandana describe 3 negative things that came from the green revolution in India?
  4. How were pesticides developed?
  5. How were fertilizers developed?
  6. How does the green revolution’s method compare to organic farming?
  7. How do subsides affect the small farmer?
  8. What is genetic engineering?
  9. What are the 3 agencies that can regulate GMO’s and what are they doing?
  10. What is genetic pollution is it possible to stop it?
  11. What is a feeding study? What have been some of the results?
  12. What was the starlink scandal?
  13. Are GMO’s guaranteed to solve the huger problem? Explain?
  14. How is world hunger created according to Vandana?
  15. ______will feed the world not chemicals. ______will feed the world not genetic engineering?
  16. What is a Community Supported Agriculture CSA and how does it work?

How Food Shapes our Cities – Carolyn Steel (16min)

  1. Why is feeding people with meat not efficient?
  2. What is happening to the land as a result of agriculture?
  3. What started in the fertile crescent?
  4. Explain how agriculture and cities are connected.
  5. How has our food system distanced us from or most basic relationship with food?

Seeds lof life:David Vs. Goliath (6 min)

  1. What does the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) program do?
  2. What is the concern over agrobacterium?
  3. Why is an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) being asked for?
  4. What happened when Monsanto released their Roundup ready alphalfa without an EIS?
  5. How can we get GMO labeling?
  6. What was the law that required an EIS to be done?

Tristram Stuart: The Global Food Waste Scandal (14 min)

  1. What did Tristram notice when he was raising his pigs?
  2. What did Tristram find about the amount of food most countries have compared to what is needed to feed its population.
  3. Describe what percentages of food (his biscuits) are being lost and where is it going?
  4. How much of a farm can be lost because due to cosmetic appearance and not spoilage?
  5. How much fish is lost?
  6. What is feeding the 5,000?

Stephen Ritz: A Teacher growing green in the South Bronx (14min)

  1. What things has Stephen notices in his kids and why does he think this has occurred?
  2. Talk about some of the successes that Stephen is having with his programs.
  3. What is the other part of the nutrition solution that Stephen talks about.